Re: What does group consider to be on topic?

2012-07-19 Thread Paul E Condon
. Not every analogy is helpful. Most are not. This comment should have been placed somewhere else in this discussion tree, but I had deleted the tree yesterday as being uninteresting. HTH to all. Peace. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Need suggestions on a backup issue

2012-07-20 Thread Paul E Condon
? Thanks -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120720155053.ga2...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Need suggestions on a backup issue SOLVED: mountpoint

2012-07-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120720_122714, Rob Owens wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 09:50:53AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Debian already provides an email facility that allows cron scripts to email me with error messages. I need a way to test in Bash whether, or not, there actually is a disk mounted at /media

What does this mean?

2012-07-21 Thread Paul E Condon
does not crash. It continues to be possible to interact with it, including, even using aptitude to install software. What does this outburst mean? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120722_132033, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:58:52 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - new to me, but not new. While running a script that does a disk to disk copy with some reformatting on a file of a few GB, I

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, component test software on it? Yes. At boot

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120724_022817, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:21:34PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120723_084535, Morning Star wrote: Paul, Are you using squeeze for 64-bit architecture? No. I'm using i386 or perhaps i686. The computer is absolutely not a speed deamon. It was purchased to be a plodding old work horse. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Paul E Condon pecon

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
inattention and real damaged is done. But... as a test, and you are testing, use root. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120730_122543, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120730_065640, Mark Fletcher wrote: Joe joe at jretrading.com writes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher mark27q1 at gmail.com wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what

Re: Storage server

2012-09-09 Thread Paul E Condon
, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120909202535.ga3...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Storage server

2012-09-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120910_053746, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 9/9/2012 3:25 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I've been following this thread from its beginning. My initial reading of OP's post was to marvel at the thought that so many things/tasks could be done with a single box in a single geek's cubicle. One

Re: Storage server [solved???]

2012-09-14 Thread Paul E Condon
'Solved' is not a proper description. Better to say that I have discovered some serious misunderstanding on my part. It would be a serious waste of other peoples time to extend this sub-thread with a detailed explanation. Sorry. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: Debian Small CD install netinst.iso

2012-10-07 Thread Paul E Condon
sure you see the Windows disk while configuring, and be sure you select do not mount. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: [NIT] Re: Debian Small CD install netinst.iso

2012-10-07 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20121007_152845, Neal Murphy wrote: On Sunday, October 07, 2012 03:18:25 PM Paul E Condon wrote: Windows and Debian use different file systems on disk. I think Windows is incapable of modifying data on extN formatted disks that Debian uses. A minor NIT to pick. There is an EXT3

A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-15 Thread Paul E Condon
desktop. Ideas? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121016023556.ga20...@big.lan.gnu

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20121015_214840, John Hasler wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Ideas? Run cronyc and post the results of the tracking and sources commands. -- John Hasler Now I am running NTP. Is there something I could post from NTP that would be useful? The switch will take some time, and I'd rather

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20121015_214840, John Hasler wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Ideas? Run cronyc and post the results of the tracking and sources commands. -- John Hasler I've now switched to chrony. The offset between 'atomic clock' and Gnome clock display remains greater than 15sec. Its hard to be more

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20121016_062545, John Hasler wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Now I am running NTP. Does Ntp agree with your wall clock? -- John Hasler No. It displays the same offset into the future in reference to the SkyScan clock. Also, I have escalated my effort on this. I actually have three(3

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20121016_102703, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: Am 16.10.2012 um 04:35 schrieb Paul E Condon: I've been running Debian for many years. During most of those years I have had a SkyScan(tm) 'Atomic Clock' on the wall near my Debian desktop computer. The physical computer has changed over

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-16 Thread Paul E Condon
-- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121016123854.gb3...@gospelbroadcasting.org -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: GRUB location on Dual-Boot with TWO hard drives

2012-10-17 Thread Paul E Condon
this situation, you should understand that for the typical new user your question is meaningless. What does he mean by a name? Browser is browser. Be more forgiving. Gnome does make it pretty hard to understand what is really happening. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: A puzzle with internet time and NIST time

2012-10-17 Thread Paul E Condon
discussion. I had no idea the topic is so complicated. There are so many ways for the clock to fail. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: unix tool as precise counter/timer for periodic print/exec

2012-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
completed. For some jobs this can cause problems. If you want to do something that takes 1 or 2 sec., every 5 sec., crontab works without using locks on files, or other safety mechanisms. Or look at the package liblockfile1. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: How do I remove a bad file??

2012-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
of this is largely worthless. Don't try it with the find command and changes to it are recorded with pencil on a note pad!!! -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Questions about Netatalk running on Debian server

2012-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
have netatalk 2.2.2-1 working under Wheezy? Can you point me to some debugging instructions? Or, can you lead me through some tests to discover what is going wrong? Please help. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Questions about Netatalk running on Debian server

2012-05-08 Thread Paul E Condon
netatalk, but it doesn't seem to be included in this package. On 20120506_230937, Paul E Condon wrote: I have a long and troubled relation to Netatalk. I live in a family where everyone else loves the Mac, and I have a need to communicate with them. I once had netatalk running on Debian back

Re: Questions about Netatalk running on Debian server

2012-05-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120508_210017, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 11:09:37PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [...] Does anyone have netatalk 2.2.2-1 working under Wheezy? Can you point me to some debugging instructions? Or, can you lead me through some tests to discover what is going wrong

Re: Questions about Netatalk running on Debian server

2012-05-09 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120509_012529, Tom H wrote: On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20120506_230937, Paul E Condon wrote: I have a long and troubled relation to Netatalk.  I live in a family where everyone else loves the Mac, and I have a need

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-07 Thread Paul E Condon
-signed key would surely not be accepted for these new infringements of our liberty. I hope I haven't thought of something that is unthinkable and thereby marked myself as an evil person in the eyes of those who are watching. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: Sugestions for New Releases of Debian

2012-06-09 Thread Paul E Condon
that history is, but it seems OK to me. I have long wished that someone with real Social Science creds would study us as a counter example to the maunderings of Ayn Rand. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread Paul E Condon
. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120619175600.ga16...@big.lan.gnu

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120619_211919, keith wrote: On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I purchased a dell desktop pc recently intending to use it as a untility server for things like backup and print serving, and I am having trouble installing Debian on it. I've been using Debian since

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote: On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 11:56:00 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [Snip] But my old Lenny netinstall CD *does*work*. Now I need a repository to point it at. I've found archive.kernel.org (I'm in USA). But I'm having trouble composing the exact string that I

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Le Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net a écrit : Thanks, but... I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to make sure, and again I got the standard Bad Archive Mirror message

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote: On Tue 19 Jun 2012 at 22:33:44 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_004441, Brian wrote: I'd put archive.debian.org for the mirror hostname. [Snip] I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to make sure, and again

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Your CD, being from the lenny=stable era, probably attempts to access stable release but it does not exists on an archive repository. Replacing stable

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_130712, Brian wrote: On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 03:20:02 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_083247, Brian wrote: I used the mini.iso from http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-5.0/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ successfully

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120620_145735, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: snip... You can always use the Alt-F2 console to edit (I think nano is available) the sources.list file

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120621_104337, Brian wrote: On Wed 20 Jun 2012 at 17:54:08 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Ok. Trying to repeat your work, I accomplish all steps thru 4, Good progress. At least we now know the mirror and the installer work together. but I cannot boot to Lenny. Instead I get error

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-02 Thread Paul E Condon
experience, intuitive is something that I was told long ago and not remembered until presented with an actual example. I don't think I have been told how to intuit the answers here. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Backports on Squeeze OT question/issue

2012-07-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120703_103802, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:34:19PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:09:49 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: but how does one know of the existance of a backported package. As usual, you go to the online search and type the name

Re: Backports on Squeeze

2012-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120704_090212, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 12:17:39PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: Let me join in the discussion of what I intended by my badly worded request: 1. I need a way of learning the name of the package that might help with some problem, a place

Re: NFS mount points on Squeeze

2012-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
line. Is there a better entry to use? Try adding ,nofail after defaults. I works for me on some plugable usb drive. It probably will work for NFS. There is some place where you can tweek the timeout value but the default worked for me. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: drive labels

2012-07-06 Thread Paul E Condon
to write the LABEL on a stickum label and place the stickum label on the device. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: drive labels --- update to my previous post

2012-07-09 Thread Paul E Condon
the same LABEL. The text database is a good aid in this. Its also a good idea to write the LABEL on a stickum label and place the stickum label on the device. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net Thanks for your reply. I never thought

Re: [OT] Re: Test Post

2012-07-13 Thread Paul E Condon
to the sender and not to any other subscribers. ;-\ -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120713145905

Re: default resolution on distro boot

2012-01-23 Thread Paul E Condon
for a more impressive explanation. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120124040611.ga

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list for security updates

2012-01-29 Thread Paul E Condon
am not one of them. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120129184630.gc5...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Using wheezy or testing in ,,, OT question.

2012-01-29 Thread Paul E Condon
. ^^ Unfortunately, Debian lives in a real world replete with uninformed opinion. I'm hoping that you can offer some assurance that your statement is fact, because I really like what you say. What can you say to reassure me? -- Paul E Condon

Re: Using wheezy or testing in sources.list f ... sorry for the noise

2012-01-29 Thread Paul E Condon
into a directory named Wheezy. To answer your other question, security updates for Testing move through from Unstable like any other update except for being fast tracked: http://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing Does that help at all? :-) -- Chris -- Paul E Condon pecon

Re: how to refrain only use certain number of processors

2012-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
builtin are in there somewhere. Bash also has a wait builtin which doesn't do what you want. Wait command waits for all running jobs to complete. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

jigdo-bd

2011-08-12 Thread Paul E Condon
don't make the connection the way I do for cd. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110812192613

OT questions about noscript and notscript

2011-08-18 Thread Paul E Condon
about the Internet. Is there a well maintained glossary of terms somewhere? One that includes historical usage as well as the most recent buzz? (so I can track new vs. what was once new, long ago) TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Backup System

2012-02-03 Thread Paul E Condon
...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f2bbf49.5090...@gmail.com -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Backup System

2012-02-03 Thread Paul E Condon
...@gmail.com -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120204004401.gb26...@big.lan.gnu

A question about ssh-agent

2012-02-04 Thread Paul E Condon
? Is there a common name for doing this? Etc. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120204080547.ga27

Re: A question about ssh-agent

2012-02-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120204_093544, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-02-04 09:09 +0100, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 04/02/12 19:05, Paul E Condon wrote: Where in the start-up code of a system that is running ssh client is the ssh-agent started? It has got to be early in the process, but where? And what

Re: A question about ssh-agent

2012-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
in? And what were those commands? I'm trying to understand how this thing works. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: A question about ssh-agent

2012-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
on Roaming. I don't have any idea what the word might mean in this context. It isn't mentioned in any documentation that I have searched. Any ideas? Or leads? If 'roaming' is not allowed, perhaps setting something some config file will make it be allowed. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon

Re: A question about ssh-agent

2012-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120206_132412, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: debug1: Roaming not allowed by server Then the process switches over to asking for a password, which I am trying to avoid. On the server look in /var/log/auth.log and look at the messages logged there from the sshd. Do you

Re: A question about ssh-agent [solved]

2012-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120206_132412, Bob Proulx wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: debug1: Roaming not allowed by server Then the process switches over to asking for a password, which I am trying to avoid. On the server look in /var/log/auth.log and look at the messages

Question about ssh passwords and backup software

2012-02-13 Thread Paul E Condon
or the other based on something more than a gut feeling? If so, what did you decide, and what were the risk factors that were important to you? If any of you feel that your position on this issue in not an opinion, but a fact that is beyond argument, your response is also welcome. TIA -- Paul E Condon

Re: how are html pages printed?

2012-02-13 Thread Paul E Condon
that CUPS cares about certificates. (or does it?, I don't know) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Running 2 ssh instances

2012-02-13 Thread Paul E Condon
that it works. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120214050033.gc30...@big.lan.gnu

Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-15 Thread Paul E Condon
more modern software. If you intend any deviation from the basic Qualcomm popper install ... instead. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120216_015139, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 feb 12, 14:18:38, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] Don't know about POP3, but for IMAP I just installed dovecot-imapd and it automatically picked up my ~/Maildir/ I expect the same would happen with dovecot-pop3d (but I'm too lazy to test

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper

2012-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120216_122003, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 15 feb 12, 18:17:11, Paul E Condon wrote: Thanks but ... What is dovecot? And which host is it to be installed? You asked for replacements to qpopper and this is what I suggested. See 'apt-cache show dovecot-pop3d' for more info

Re: Need help dealing with the demise of qpopper [SOLVED]

2012-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120216_113002, Chris Davies wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I have looked into qpopper replacement options. I'm sure setting up a replacement will be easy for many, but for me it presents a challenge. Happy to try and help you accept and overcome the challenge

Re: Persisting a one-off hostname change

2012-02-27 Thread Paul E Condon
with a more permanent and convenient name for the follow-on use/processing of the individual computer. But --- maybe I misunderstand totally the nature of your problem, in which case sorry for the noise. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Persisting a one-off hostname change

2012-02-27 Thread Paul E Condon
for the follow-on use/processing of the individual computer. But --- maybe I misunderstand totally the nature of your problem, in which case sorry for the noise. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Persisting a one-off hostname change

2012-02-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120228_081002, Jason Heeris wrote: On 28 February 2012 03:28, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I've been lurking, hoping to learn. Maybe I don't fully understand, but --- Wouldn't you be better off using the MAC address of the interface chip in each computer rather

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp ... OT question

2012-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
mount at /tmp. At least that is what I think my problem is. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: Ext2 bit rot (was: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp ... OT question)

2012-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120326_074231, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Jochen Spieker wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm sure some/many of you will gasp at that fact I still use EXT2. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. The /boot

Re: Ext2 bit rot

2012-03-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120326_135131, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/26/2012 12:29 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Please address my OT question in my OT branch of this increase-ramfs-howto discussion. How do I turn off ramfs on a wheezy installation on which it is already there? Preferably without doing

Re: Ext2 bit rot

2012-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120327_065717, Dom wrote: On 27/03/12 03:15, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120326_135131, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 3/26/2012 12:29 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: So how do I turn off ramfs on a wheezy box where it was installed as part of the initial net-inst install, and seems to be involved

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
scratch space running very nicely on computers old enough to have once run woody. And now they are to be broken by something in wheezy software? Can this happen? Really? I hope some work-around that actually survives testing is suggested soon. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

repository signing keys update HOW?

2012-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
automatically, but apparently it did not. Please remind me where I can get this. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

2012-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120329_123755, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 29/03/12 12:12, Paul E Condon wrote: I have forgotten how to install the latest official signing keys for the package repositories, and I can't even remember search terms that take me to the information. I am getting reports from aptitude

Re: Does find subdir -printf %A\n a bad example which is mentioned in the documentation?

2012-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
for some work. Figure out how it works, and then write, and contribute a better man page. I would have appreciated it when I was learning, but now that I know the truth I can't see a better way to say it than is already there. Enjoy ?-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120329_095413, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12, 16:58:03, Paul E Condon wrote: You could have also considered uncompressing the tarball somewhere else, like $HOME/tmp or $HOME/src, but it sure is a valid solution, especially ^^ On my

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120330_030935, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20120329_011019, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12, 20:47:45, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:55:01 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12, 17:02:23

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120329_095413, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12, 16:58:03, Paul E Condon wrote: You could have also considered uncompressing the tarball somewhere else, like $HOME/tmp or $HOME/src, but it sure is a valid solution, especially ^^ On my

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120330_164907, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20120330_030935, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20120329_011019, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120331_00, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 30 mar 12, 14:44:37, Paul E Condon wrote: No. You misunderstand me. There is a new extra requirement on TMPDIR, a restriction on ones choise of its value. A directory entry on a disk file system is not enough. It must be a directory entry

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120331_114636, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 30 mar 12, 16:40:18, Paul E Condon wrote: Perhaps you are thinking of an officially published requirement. What I mean 'requirement' is a condition which by trial is found to be necessary for it to work. I tried cases that did not meet

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-03-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120331_061146, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20120329_095413, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 28 mar 12, 16:58:03, Paul E Condon wrote: You could have also considered uncompressing the tarball somewhere else

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120401_130449, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 31 mar 12, 11:08:39, Paul E Condon wrote: Having a tmpfs filesystem for /tmp doesn't mean that a dedicated partition is required for /tmp. What you say doesn't work for me, but something else does. Show us (what doesn't work

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-01 Thread Paul E Condon
speaks English but has no understanding of computers. Please do sweat the details of wording. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120402_043958, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20120401_130449, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 31 mar 12, 11:08:39, Paul E Condon wrote: Having a tmpfs filesystem for /tmp doesn't mean that a dedicated partition

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120402_143034, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:12:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: It is my understanding that the directory that one wishes to use in TMPDIR must be mentioned in a line in /etc/fstab for this to work, and a block special mountable device must be mentioned

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120402_165955, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:50:25AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120402_143034, Roger Leigh wrote: Other than defaulting to mounting a tmpfs on /tmp, there have been *no other changes*!! I tend to suspect from this thread that the problems you

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120402_083627, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 1 Apr 2012, Paul E Condon wrote: Note that apt-get now installs recommended packages as default and is, for its robustness, the preferred program for package management from console to perform system installation and major

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120402_215620, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:55:02AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: During my tests, I noticed that there was always a line in df, concerning /tmp in tmpfs. With RAMTMP=yes the line was labeled tmpfs, but with RAMTMP=no, the line was labeled 'overflow

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120402_234538, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/2/2012 9:43 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: This is the du command and results: root@gq:/# du -k -s -c /[^pm]* /m[^e]* 4 /home Is your /home empty? Your du command seems to think so. That's hard to Yes. It was empty at the time at which

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-03 Thread Paul E Condon
E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120403181822.ga22...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again (and rant on /etc/default) in re. the rant

2012-04-07 Thread Paul E Condon
the big picture. It is so much easier than sweating the details of getting a program to work. Especially if I can't find configuration files or don't even know that they exist. ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
natural language. People understand it 'intuitively'. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-21 Thread Paul E Condon
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105211844.37661.hans.ullr...@loop.de -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110521_113317, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110521_184436, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Hi all, during an update all devices were changed from /dev/sdX to its UUID. This included /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab. Does somebody know, which package did the changes? As I had to reinstall

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